High Tide Line by William Parsons | Script Revolution

High Tide Line

A cocky, selfish teenager scaring his loved ones lets his unexplained ability to heal convince him he's invincible while he secretly deals with his guilt over his mother who died of cancer.​

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All Accolades & Coverage: 
• Quarter-Finalist in the Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards Season 9 (2024) • Quarter-Finalist in the Screencraft 2017 Short Screenplay Contest • In his Deluxe Feature Coverage, Scott Parisien over at Script Reader Pro, after an exhaustive 15-page coverage, gave "High Tide Line" a "Recommend" of which I am very proud.
Submitted: January 25, 2019
Last Updated: September 9, 2024

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The Writer: William Parsons

"Do not fear death; fear the unlived life." Ever since I read that advice given by Pa Tuck in Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, I have thought of that as my rallying call. I do not want to come to the end of my days (at 52 years old, still—so I hope—a ways off) and look back and realize to my horror, "Wow, what a waste!" A product of a bad childhood, I have stumbled through my adulthood, always though managing to keep on the path of my own happiness. The one constant through all of it has been my writing, which has lived in symbiosis with my meandering that path. My writing has served as my journal of that journey, and my journey has provided me the well of emotions and experiences to... Go to bio

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